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Looks legit to me. The NO countermark on Canadian coins is well known
to collectors of countermarked coins.
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Don't believe everything that Everest says about that mark being "common" and "legit". I've looked at 100's of thousands of Vicky large cents and never seen an "NO" .. and I have over 1000 1859's lone, let alone the boxes of others. Now, collectors of stamped coins may have seen them, but I've never heard of it and I mean a common added mark well after issue... There were merchants who stamped their initials in coins and large cents were used as ID's and markers for miners, construction, and other large man-force occupations. The "NO" on the coin is not a counterstamp, it is a hand-stamped mark to be used locally. Counterstamps were countries who marked other country's coins for use in their own country. Maybe the "NO" stands for Nofoundland.
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08/21/2016 8:34 pm
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Don't believe everything that a golf-loving, large-cent hoarding Burlington collector from Oklahoma says either...  This is a very popular counterstamp mark, usually was punched into Newfoundland coins, and highly collectable. The mark is that of Nicholas Ohman from St. John, Newfoundland. I have never seen one punched into a Canadian large cent, and I imagine our CCF friend canadian-varieties would love to see this one... http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/...IC_ID=230338 "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Canada
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OK, Roger, I recant all my remarks from above. I thought that I had seen almost all of the large cents available in Ontario for the last 20 years .. my mistake and I apologize to Everest. I've seen lots of cruder handstamps on coins, but never a neat one from a special punch like that. And I also misread countermark as counterstamp .. I'm getting too old.
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Canada
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1- nothing for Roger this week. It is only Monday.
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United States
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The NO punched onto a Canadian large cent is new to me also. It must be pretty scarce. But, that still doesn't make it worth what the guy is asking!
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Canada
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This is a treasure. Thank you to the four or five people who gave me heads up on this! I am truly appreciative and feel very blessed!  Edited by canadian-varieties
08/22/2016 10:41 pm
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Thought you might like that...  "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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I think that's one great thing about this forum... some people know what others collect and can direct them to it....
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Canada
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Canada
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Counterstamped coins are neither varieties nor errors.
They are a type of exonumia.
Charlton's did the hobby a great disservice by listing the JOP dollars as varieties.
There is no such thing as a post mint variety or error.
Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold,
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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08/25/2016 01:11 am
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There is no such thing as a post mint variety or error. When it comes to varieties, I concur. When it comes to errors, I disagree (laminations, planchets split after the strike, double struck coins, etc...)
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Counterstamped coins are neither varieties nor errors. I agree. Quote:
They are a type of exonumia. I disagree. The coin is still a coin, no matter how marked, nicked, mutilated, or otherwise damaged it may be. I just love this thread...  http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/...IC_ID=126486
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Canada
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I agree .. they are not varieties or errors .... they didn't leave the mint that way.
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Posted 08/21/2016 8:28 pm
